‘Guess I’ll be reading about you in the social pages tomorrow,’ commented Emmett, as he returned from the kitchenette and saw me leaving.
I sensed a warning beneath the comment, which was rather sweet. ‘Why read the news, when you can be the news,’ I commented flippantly. Emmett took me for a social climber and I decided it was safer to perpetuate that illusion.
The lad shook his head at my resolve and waved me off as predictable. I rather liked Emmett I decided, heading back to raid my luggage for a change of attire.
‘Are you insane!’
My mother was displeased by my decision to date her employer.
‘Your father and I have gone to great lengths to keep you hidden from undesirables, and you decide to date the guy who has been hailed the world’s most eligible bachelor for three years running! The press go ballistic every time he glances sideways at a woman. You’ll be world news by tomorrow morning!’
‘Exactly,’ I agreed, zipping up my pleated, checked mini-skirt. I reached for my little white shirt, pulled it on and tied it into a tank top. ‘I don’t have time to go chase up all the Nefilim. We need them to come to me. And they can only do that if they know where I am…not to mention Mathu.’
‘Everyone will know where you are, that’s the point!’ Mother frowned as she watched me pull my long white socks up over my knees. ‘You cannot go dressed like that. You look like a schoolgirl.’ She could not help but grin at my blatant cheek.
‘I am a schoolgirl.’ I was quite prepared to promote that little fantasy among my prospective enemies and admirers. ‘The good news is that Killian is not one of my fallen kindred.’ I pulled on my chunky black platform shoes, and my slim-fit black mohair cardigan.
‘Yes, I realise that,’ Mother emphasised. ‘So it would be best if we did not attract any of the Nefilim to this particular area of the world right now.’
A vehicle pulling into the site camp drew our attention to the window—it was a long gold limousine. A handsome young chauffeur opened the rear door and Morell Labontè and his wife, Sabine, stepped into view. They each had an aura of sparkling gold and a light-body devoid of lightcentres. Physically, their true stature could be seen looming over the smaller human bodies they sported; they were Nefilim masquerading as humans.
About the Author
Traci Harding lives on the Hawkesbury River, with her husband David and their two beautiful children, Sarah and John.
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Books By Traci Harding
The Ancient Future Trilogy
The Ancient Future: the Dark Age (Book One)
An Echo in Time: Atlantis (Book Two)
Masters of Reality: the Gathering (Book Three)
The Alchemist’s Key
The Celestial Triad
Chronicle of Ages (Book One)
Tablet of Destinies (Book Two)
The Cosmic Logos (Book Three)
Ghostwriting
The Book of Dreams
The Mystique Trilogy
Gene of Isis (Book One)
The Dragon Queens (Book Two)
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First published in Australia in 2007
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Title:The dragon queens / author, Traci Harding.
Publisher: Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2008.
ISBN 978 0 7322 8112 0 (pbk.)
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Series: Hardin, Traci. Mystique trilogy ; 2.
Dewey Number: A823.3
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